PL. CCCII. 
LAELIA PURPURATA lindl. var. ROSEA regel. 
THE ROSE-COLOURED VARIETY OF LAELIA PURPURATA. 
LAELIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl, ed., I, p. 41. 
Laelia purpurata. Vide Lindenia, Engl, ed., I, p. 41. 
Var. rosea. Sepalis roseo-lilacinis, petalis similibus parce roseo-venosis, labello normale. 
Var. rosea Regel, Gartenflora, XXI, p. 225, t. 730. 
his very handsome variety originally appeared at the St. Petersburg 
Botanic Garden, from a plant imported direct from the island of Santa 
Catherina, and was figured in the Gartenflora, in 1872. The présent 
one, which appeared with Messrs Linden L’Horticulture Internationale, Parc 
Léopold, Brussels, is substantially identical. Its essential character lies in the 
sepals and petals which are of a beautiful rosy-lilac shade, the latter having a 
deeper rose-coloured mid-nerve, and a few irregular radiating veins on either 
side. The lip is almost normal in character, but is not of quite so dark a purple 
as some of the other varieties. It is about intermediate between the type and the 
variety Lowiana , which is believed to be the darkest form which has hitherto 
appeared. 
R. A. Rolfe. 
(Continued from page 30.7 
récurrence of the former scene of astonishment and vexation, for the blossoms, 
instead of those of the coveted novelty, were not distinguishable from the old 
C. ventricosum. These were still hanging to the stem, when the inexplicable plant 
sent forth a spike of a totally different character, and which was, in fact, precisely 
similar to the specimens gathered in Guatemala, and to those produced on the 
voyage. It is, at présent, impossible to attempt any explanation of so strange a 
phenomenon, especially on the supposition that the two forms of flowers are 
analagous to the male and female blossoms of other tribes, for C. ventricosum 
alone not infrequently perfects seeds. ” 
These phenomena puzzled the sagacious Bindley exceedingly, for at p. 76 
of the Miscellaneous matter of the Botanical Register for 1843 he remarks, that 
notwithstanding the unquestionable authority of M r Bateman, there were many 
persons, well skilled in the habit of Orchidaceae, who felt convinced that some 
mistake had been made, and that in reality it was impossible that such totally 
